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[WitchesWorkshop] Digest Number 4628

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Australian Witchcamp 2011 - Places running out!!

Posted by: "SunBird" fimariposa@yahoo.com.au   fimariposa

Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:55 pm (PST)



Hello Everyone,

Just a quick note to let you all know that if you would like to come to this year's WitchCamp, it would be advisable to book your place soon.  We have already filled over two-thirds of the available places, so if you are keen to come, please send us your registration. 

Payment plans can be arranged, if needed.  Please contact our organising collective at ecell@australiareclaiming.org

I look forward to seeing some of you there!
SunBird

Australian Reclaiming WitchCamp 2011

Where: Healesville, Victoria

When: Thurs April 21 to Mon April 25, 2011

Contact: ecell@australiareclaiming.org.

Web: http://witchcamp.australiareclaiming.org.au

Host:
The Australian Reclaiming Community (ARC) is a collective of different
Reclaiming-identified groups and individuals across Australia.

Cost: Early Bird Rate - $500 full / $450 concession (full payment by Feb 14)
          Normal Rate - $550 full / $ 500 concession (full payment by Apr 9 2011)

Covers shared cabin accommodation (four nights), three vegetarian meals daily, and all workshops and rituals.

***Payment plans can be negotiated.  Please contact our ecell for more information: ecell@australiareclaiming.org

Description:
The Australian Reclaiming Community (ARC) is pleased to announce that
we will be hosting the very first Australian WitchCamp in April 2011.
Reclaiming WitchCamps are renowned internationally as deeply ecstatic
and transformative events. We are very excited to be able to offer
the first ever Reclaiming WitchCamp here in Australia, to be held in
the beautiful native bushland of Healesville, Victoria!

WitchCamps were
first organised in California during the 1980s and have since
flourished across the US, Canada and Western Europe. Each Camp includes
a series of workshops and rituals inspired by a central Camp theme, and
are created by an experienced teaching team. The teaching team for the
first ARC WitchCamp includes both Australian and International teachers:

John Brazaitis (US)

Rhonda King (Vic, AUS)

Fiona Mariposa (Vic, AUS)

Jane Meredith (NSW, AUS)

Gede Parma (Qld, AUS)

Ravyn Stanfield (US)

This
teaching team has many years of priest/priestessing and teaching
experience between them. We are thrilled to be able to host this event
as an offering to the Australian Pagan community.

WitchCamp Teaching Paths:

The
2011 Australian WitchCamp will include three different Teaching Paths
(or structured series of workshops). Each participant will be asked to
nominate the Path that they would like to travel for the duration of
the Camp.
The Path descriptions are as follows:

Elements Path
with John Brazaitis and Rhonda King

What is Reclaiming Witchcraft?  Join us as we immerse ourselves in
the art of this tradition.  Discover new ways of experiencing the
elements and magical practice Reclaiming style as together we share
& explore not just the "what", but also the "why" and "how" of
creating the magic that is WitchCamp.
In the course of this path we will allow the elements to speak
through us via story, movement, sacred drama and song.  How do the
elements connect us with this ancient land on which we walk?  How are
the elements a gateway to empowerment?

The Elements Path is designed to enhance or instill magical practice,
ritual etiquette and to deepen individual experience in the evening
rituals. This path is for all those who come prepared to know the
elements in a new and experiential way, whether skilled practitioners
or newcomers to the Reclaiming tradition. The Elements Path is
structured to be accessible and useful to all campers, but is
especially recommended to those not familiar with the Reclaiming
tradition or who have limited experience working in group rituals.

Earthsong: Listening to the Voice of Nature
Earth Path with Ravyn Stanfield and Fiona Mariposa

Our Pagan spirituality is deeply rooted in the planet on which we make
our home. We may struggle with daily living in urban settings removed
from connection with the Earth's song.  The modern culture we live in
encourages us to be divorced from our bodies and separate from the land
on which we depend - a hex that we have the power to break.


This week, we will reclaim our primal nature, remembering ourselves as
divine human animals.  We will dissolve layers of fear, dissociation,
technology, self-hatred and loneliness, and learn practices that will
help us to better understand the voices of Mother Nature.  We will
design solitary and tribal play for our bodies, and reconnect to the
possibility of wild human beauty and purpose within the web of life. 
We will seek wisdom and inspiration from the voices of our
co-inhabitants of the Earth, rededicating to ancient alliances and
beginning new conversations.

On this Path we will renew our
love songs to the land in ecstatic passion, our human trademark. We
will create practical magic for healing our bodies and our planet, and
remind ourselves that we are never alone in this work.

Inner Path of Power
with Jane Meredith and Gede Parma

"Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" (Marianne  Williamson).

As
Witches we undertake to work with power consciously and responsibly.
Recognising that to have and use power is to be able, in this Path we
will undertake an exploration of Self to discover our Power within.
'Know thyself' is an unending journey all of us choose to take again
and again, discovering deeper layers of our essential truth, self and
power. We will work with ritual, self-discovery, communion and creative
processes both as individuals and as a group. For this Path, a strong
grounding in Elements and personal magical practice and discipline is
required.

Self and Power are two points of the Iron Pentacle,
a Reclaiming and Feri magical construct. Travelling the Inner Path of
Power we will explore aspects of Shadow, ethics of Power and cultural
concepts. We will combine personal exploration and ecstatic ritual to
examine these two points and how they intersect intrinsically, arriving
at a place where they are balanced, alive and vibrant. The relationship
between Self and Power is as the devotion of prayer to Deity.

Registration for the 2011 ARC WitchCamp is now open!

Please
register early to take advantage of our 'Early Bird' prices and to
secure your place. Places are limited. For more information about the
2011 Australian Reclaiming Community WitchCamp and to register your
attendance, visit our website at http://witchcamp.australiareclaiming.org.au.

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Re: Image from Rosemary's Baby sought

Posted by: "Graham" grahfurn@yahoo.com.au   grahfurn

Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:27 pm (PST)



I couldn't find anything on that painting C.B., but your post has encouraged me to watch that movie again! Hope you can find a link to the painting.
BB Graham.

 
--- On Sun, 16/1/11, carteblanche13 <carteblanche13@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

From: carteblanche13 <carteblanche13@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: [WitchesWorkshop] Image from Rosemary's Baby sought
To: WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com
Received: Sunday, 16 January, 2011, 10:30 PM

 

Hell-O all,

In Mr. Polanski's classic film Rosemary's Baby (1968), there is a scene where the young couple are visiting their evil neighbours. They walk down the corridors, and on one of the walls is a magnificent painting of a cathedral on fire at night.

I was wondering if anyone knows where I could get copies of this painting, or of ones like it.

Apologies for the (inverted) cross-post.

C.B.

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Goat Sacrifice: the way of the future

Posted by: "carteblanche13" carteblanche13@yahoo.com.au   carteblanche13

Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:23 pm (PST)



... according to the Nepalese government, anyway:

"Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.

"The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said." - Reuters

(...yeah, fine, but when WE do it... )

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/new-techniques-for-saving-failed-projects/378

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Beach Full Moon Gathering this Wednesday (Adelaide)

Posted by: "frances_tdm" frances@templedarkmoon.com   frances_tdm

Mon Jan 17, 2011 2:43 am (PST)



Greetings All

Just a reminder for those in Adelaide that the Temple of the Dark Moon will be holding an open Full Moon Gathering on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 at Grange Beach (Tennyson). We will meet at the entrance of the jetty from 7.30pm amd will be moving down to the sands just prior to 8.00pm.

Being the first Full Moon for 2011, a blessing of the oceans and all waterways will be undertaken with the rite being dedicated to Yemaya, or Ymoja as she was known to the Yoruban people of West Africa.

Attendees are encouraged to bring a small offering (such as a shell, flower or a small stone/pebble) that will be thrown into the waters for Yemaya.

For more information about this open event, please contact me privately.

BB - Frances

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The Royal Society and the Decline of Magic

Posted by: "carteblanche13" carteblanche13@yahoo.com.au   carteblanche13

Mon Jan 17, 2011 3:24 am (PST)



I have been asked to pass this on - sadly I may not be able to attend myself but it looks rather juicy:

The Royal Society and the Decline of Magic

Professor Michael Hunter, Professor of History Birkbeck, University of London

Co-presented with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney

The role of the Royal Society in the so-called `Decline of Magic' was paradoxical. In the society's early years, many of its Fellows were deeply committed to magical pursuits [like Sir Isaac Newton with Alchemy -C.B.], while some urged the institution actively to investigate their validity. Yet in practice the society simply excluded magic from its corporate activities, for a variety of reasons on which it is possible to speculate. What is important is that, due to the society's crucial role in defining the proper realm of scientific enquiry, the result was to banish magic from this by default. This proved surprisingly influential, leading to the emergence in the early 18th century of a myth of the society's positive role in eradicating such beliefs which was erroneous but is significant in itself.

Michael Hunter has been Professor of History at Birkbeck since 1992. He is the principal editor of the Works (14 vols., 1999-2000) and Correspondence (6 vols., 2000) of Robert Boyle, the founder of modern chemistry. In addition, he has written various interpretative works on Boyle, and his biography, Boyle: Between God and Science, was published in 2009. He has also written or edited many books on the history of ideas and their context in late 17th-century Britain, dealing with such themes as the early history of the Royal Society; his current research is on changing attitudes to magical ideas c. 1700. A further interest is in printed images of the period. A major grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2006 to 2009 resulted in the construction of the website, www.britishprintedimagesto1700.org.uk, and the publication of an ancillary interpretative volume.

Date: Tuesday 15 February, 2011

Time: 6.00pm to 7.30pm

Venue: Law School Foyer, Eastern Avenue, the University of Sydney

Cost: Free event, no booking or registration required

Web: www.sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas

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